Fast RC Boat!

[stuckupsigns]

Too many things wrong with these photos... I grabbed my camera as it sat and ran down to the pond when I heard this cool toy. Shot with my slow, light hungry 55-200 while the sun was most of the way down Oh well, the boat is cool!!

[Kracker]

those are cool shane!!

[fnkypenguin]

pretty cool shots. The motion blur obtained is very nice. The first one looks almost like it is a full size boat and you are just really far away

[mattman]

Is that the Miss Budweiser in the first pix?!

mattman

[stuckupsigns]

Thanks everyone! This thing was waaaay fast and super sketchy. I asked the owner to try to hold a straight line as long as he could so I even had a chance. It really was great panning practice

[photonewb]

those are cool

I've always thought RC was a great combo for photography...but you just can't do both at once rofl:D

[LDB]

Those look good considering your challenges. Did you happen to talk to the owner about coming out again with a better lens when he brings it back?

[stuckupsigns]

Originally Posted by LDB

Those look good considering your challenges. Did you happen to talk to the owner about coming out again with a better lens when he brings it back?

Actually I did. He said he is out there all the time, so I will try to catch him soon. I wasnt real talkative while out there, I forgot to mention that my camera was still on the stroboframe with the GF cloud and everything (full wedding trim) so I felt like an idiot!

[toverman]

That getup just made you look more like a "serious" photographer!

[psmantaring]

A couple of my friends got these boats and were testing them out today...

[KD5NRH]

Originally Posted by photonewb

I've always thought RC was a great combo for photography...but you just can't do both at once rofl:D

That's one thing that bugs me about rocketry: when I'm doing test flights alone, the rocket is way up there by the time I can drop the launch controller and bring the camera up.

The best I can generally manage is a shot or two of tracking smoke and ejection. Recovery phase sometimes makes for one or two interesting shots, but I'm thinking about building a controller with a foot pedal so I can get some liftoff shots.

[toverman]

Originally Posted by KD5NRH

That's one thing that bugs me about rocketry: when I'm doing test flights alone, the rocket is way up there by the time I can drop the launch controller and bring the camera up.

It's all about mounting a camera TO a rocket (no, you can't borrow one of mine).

[KD5NRH]

Originally Posted by toverman

It's all about mounting a camera TO a rocket (no, you can't borrow one of mine).

I was just in a discussion of the horrible lack of quality in the premade Estes camera rockets; in addition to the leftover 110 rockets (gee, that should be loads of fun - 24 flights of one shot each to use up the film, and then you get to find someone to process it) they offer a couple of pitiful digitals now. The better of the two will do a series of 640x480 shots or a (single) 30 second video at 320x240. Both lack any removable storage, and have only volatile memory. (Gotta suck for the kid with a 3-pack of engines and no laptop to download the video between flights.) Basically, they take a <$10 rocket and added a <$15 camera, then offer it for $130. (The lesser one can be had for $75 but it's even worse.)

A lot of guys have hacked the pen-cams to get better resolution, capacity and frame rate with SD capability, and still manage to get them to fit into a BT-55 tube, thus making a much better camera rocket for about $50-75. I just got in an order of BT-55, so I'll keep looking for some dirt cheap cameras to fiddle with.

Meanwhile, the OP needs to find his own RC boat and a waterproof video camera